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1992).
    68 . Branscome,
Federal Government in Appalachia
, 37–39.
    69 . Virginia Wilson,
Economic Analysis of a Proposed Property Tax on Unmined Minerals in Kentucky
, Appalachian Center Occasional Paper Series no. 1 (Lexington: University of Kentucky Appalachian Center, 1983); Judy Jones, “Kentucky Lax on Coal Tax,”
Lexington Herald-Leader
, October 27, 1998.
    70 . See Melanie Zuercher, ed.,
Making History: The First Ten Years of the KFTC
(Prestonsburg, KY: Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, 1991).
    71 .
People’s Appalachia
1, no. 6 (1971): 3.
    72 . See Logan Brown et al., “ASA History,”
Appalachian Journal
31, no. 1 (2003).
    73 . Branscome quoted in Vecsey, “Ideal of Unity.”
    74 . Michael Smathers, “Notes of a Native Son,”
Vantage Point
2 (1973): 6–7.
5. G ROWTH AND D EVELOPMENT
    1 . Robert M. Collins,
More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 21, 38–39.
    2 . Walter Lippmann,
Washington Post
, March 19, 1964, quoted in Collins,
More
, 60.
    3 . Ralph R. Widner, “The Political Implementation of Regional Theory: The Appalachian Experience” (paper presented to the Southern Economic Association, November 13, 1970), 3, Research Reports, Administrative Research Library, Appalachian Regional Commission, Washington, DC (hereafter cited as ARL). See also John Friedman, “Regional Planning as a Field of Study,”
Journal of the American Institute of Planners
29 (August 1963), and John Friedman, “Regional Planning in Post-Industrial Society,”
Journal of the American Institute of Planners
30 (May 1964).
    4 . John L. Preston, “An Analysis of the Growth Center Strategy of the Appalachian Regional Commission” (Appalachian Regional Commission Division of Regional Program Planning and Evaluation Study Paper no. 13, March 1971), 7–8, Research Reports, ARL. See also Niles M. Hansen,
Intermediate-Size Cities as Growth Centers: Applications for Kentucky, the Piedmont Crescent, the Ozarks, and Texas
(New York: Praeger, 1971), 14–17, 26–28.
    5 . Widner, “Political Implementation,” 3.
    6 . Quoted in Albert Solnit, “Deliberate Depopulation of Whole Areas: A Protest,”
Whitesburg (KY) Mountain Eagle
, August 4, 1966.
    7 . Quoted in ibid.
    8 . “The Urban-Rural Growth Strategy in Appalachia” (commission staff summary report, September 1970), 13, Research Reports, ARL.
    9 . Widner, “Political Implementation,” 5–6.
    10 . “Urban-Rural Growth Strategy,” 14.
    11 . Ralph R. Widner, “Planning in Appalachia” (address to the Appalachian Water Development Coordinating Committee, June 15, 1967), 3, Research Reports, ARL.
    12 . John Fischer, “The Easy Chair: Can Ralph R. Widner Save New York, Chicago, and Detroit?”
Harper’s
, October 1968.
    13 . “Urban-Rural Growth Strategy,” 16, 17.
    14 . Ibid., 18.
    15 . Ralph R. Widner, “Science, Technology and Regional Development” (paper presented to the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, May 12, 1967, and the University of Tennessee Space Sciences Seminar, Knoxville, TN, May 19, 1967), 8, Research Reports, ARL; Ralph R. Widner, “A Challenge for Action: Research and Planning for Regional Development” (paper presented to the Regional Conference on Research Related to Poverty and Development in Appalachia, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA, July 17, 1968), 7, Research Reports, ARL.
    16 . Ralph R. Widner, “The Application of Systems Planning to Regional Development: The Appalachian Experience” (lecture at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, April 23, 1969), 5, Research Reports, ARL.
    17 . Ralph R. Widner, “The Application of Systems Planning to Economic and Social Problems” (remarks to the Systems and Cybernetics Group, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Washington DC, February 19, 1969), 4,